Sturisoma breeding failure

[Sentido]

Last Sunday morning , I discovered my sturisoma to have laid eggs. They were sold here as barbatum but Iâ??m not sure what kind of sturisoma they are. I have 4, and they are around 6 inches. They used to occupy a 50 gallon tank with assorted plecos but they were transferred to another 50 gallon together with L351s. The â??femaleâ?

[Janne]

This is the way I do with my Sturisoma, I leave the eggs with the male for five days from breeding and then I move them to a rearingbox...if they are stucked to the glass I use a racerblade or if they have breed on the slate that I have in the tank I move that with the eggs to the rearingbox on day 5 and a spongfilter is attached to it (outside) and put new water in the rearingbox for good water quality.
I dont use any thing against fungus (the rearingtank hang inside the breedingtank) and there is no more then a few eggs that will have fungus, normally no one get fungus. They will hatch on day 6 and the fry are free swimming directly after hatching but have a small yolk sac for the first two days then I give them softed lettuce and newly hatched brine chrimp the first 1-2 weeks and then they will eat allmost everything.

So if you let the male take care of them first the chance will be much bigger for succes, if you leave a small amount of eggs the male will eat them because it's not worth to spend any energy on so few eggs or you will disturb him to much and he will eat them anyway.

Janne